Improvement in piano-stools



\ Patented Spt.'28,1875.

E. IS-SEAVEY.

Piano-Stool.

ILPETERS. PHOTD-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGT N D UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD I. SEAVEY, OF BSGAWEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PlNO-STOCLS.

-Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 68,110, datedSeptember 28, 1875; application filed April 29, 1875.

' do hereby' declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification, and

represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a frontelevation, Fig. 2 a vertical section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section,of a piano-stool with my invention, whereby the article is not only madevery strong and durable, but capable of being readily taken apart andpacked in aslnall compass for trailsportation, and readily put together.

In such drawings, A denotes the seat, B the post, and U U C the legs.arranged as in an ordinary stool.' The"seat I provide on its under sidewith a metallic socket-piece, D, having a slightly tapering or conicalsocket, a, to receive a correspondingly-formed head or projection, b, ofthe screw E, and to iit closely thereto, the screw at the base of thehead being provided with a notch or recess, c, made across it.

By forcing1 a frog or driving a wedge into such recess, the socket-pieceD may be started up from the head in which it `is' to be driven`rmly,`so as to hold by friction sufficiently to enablethe screw to berevolved by the seat, and so maintain their connection as to admit ofthe stool being lifted by its seat, as occasion may require, for movingit from one place to another in a room.

The screw operates in conjunction with a metallic nut or female screw,F, fixed in the upperend of the tubula-r post. Each of the legs isprovided with a dovetailed tongue, e,

'pass as possible.

to enter and fit to a dovetailed groove, f, made upward in the post thelength of the tongue from the lower end of said post, and there isplaced across thelower ends of the said tongues and that of the post ametallic disk, Gr, which is secured to `the legs by screws going upthrough it and into the tongues, one of said screws being shown at g inFig. 2. This disk not only prevents the legs from working loose andspreading, so as to break their connections with the post, but answersvas the means of supporting a nial, H, provided with a screw, h, to screwinto the disk, all of which saves all necessity of glueing the legs andthe finial to the post. Vere such parts `glued. together, they could notbe readily separated for being packed for transportation and as readilyput togetheragain. g

To enable piano-stools to be made in Newr` England and shipped to SouthAmerica and the Pacific coast, or various other parts of the world, andthere sold at a profit to the maker, or purchaser, it becomes verynecessary to have them so constructed as to be easily taken apa-rt andreduced and packed in as little comlhe principal object of my inventionwill thus be understood.

` I claim in the piano-stool as follows:

rlhe seat A, provided with the piece D, having in it a tapering socket,a, in combination with the screw E, provided not only with the taperingprojection or'head b to closely t the said socket, but with thetransverse notch c, arranged with the head, as and for the purpose asrepresented.

. EDWARD I. SEAVEY. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J lt. SNoW.

